Cause and Affect

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Oops! Here's What Happens When Family and Medical Leave Policies Are Mandated​

While most people believe that people should be able to take time off work for either medical or family needs without the risk of losing their job, when these policies are mandated and not voluntarily offered by employers, it tends to have some negative consequences.

According to a recent economic analysis, family and medical leave laws have had a negative impact on women’s wages.

“In the decade prior to the passage of the Family Medical Leave Act in 1993—a federal law that guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected family or medical leave to workers in companies with 50 or more employees—white women’s wages had been converging relative to white men’s at a rate of 0.70 percentage points per year,” explains the Daily Signal. “In the decade after passage of the FMLA, the rate of convergence fell to 0.03 percentage points. The rate of convergence for black women to white men fell from 0.30 percentage points per year prior to passage of the FMLA to 0.05 percentage points after.”

Now, of course, PJ Media readers know that the alleged gender pay gap doesn’t actually exist. The left still doesn’t want to believe this and currently claims that women only make 82 cents for every dollar men make. Of course, sex discrimination in compensation has been illegal since the Equal Pay Act of 1963, yet the left still believes there is a significant pay gap between men and women.

 

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Americans Want Paid Leave, Until They Realize They Have to Pay for It​

Debt was another thing Americans did not want more of in exchange for paid leave. Only 40 percent of Americans supported paid family leave if it meant higher deficits.

Compared with paying higher taxes and more debt, the Cato study found that Americans were less willing to give up their own personal compensation or to forgo promotions for women.

Only 38 percent supported a federal paid leave policy if it meant lower pay raises for them, and even fewer—29 percent—were willing to exchange such a program for fewer benefits for them or for a reduced likelihood of promotions for women.

That has unfortunately been the case with national paid leave programs.

Americans were least willing to support a federal paid family leave program if it meant giving up other valued government services. Only 21 percent of Americans said they would trade lower funding for education, Social Security, and Medicare in order to implement a national paid family leave program.

Fortunately, paid family leave is on the rise in the U.S. even without a federal program that would require substantial tradeoffs: 20 percent of workers have access to state-based paid family leave programs and 34 percent report having access to employer-provided paid family leave.

 

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Prior to the incident, the woman had withdrawn money from a Bank of America, and the suspect is accused of following her over 20 miles to the area where the alleged robbery occurred.

Surveillance video shows a man wearing an orange jacket approach the woman and then grab ahold of her. The woman’s belongings fell on the ground, and he appeared to pick up an envelope before fleeing.

However, as she got up, he turned around and grabbed her again, reportedly body-slamming her onto the ground before snatching other items and running away:

WATCH: TX Woman Paralyzed When Alleged Robber Body Slams Her

A suspect is accused of violently robbing a woman in Houston, Texas, during a February 13 incident that left her paralyzed.

www.breitbart.com

 

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The Black mentors I had while growing up must be weeping in the Great Beyond.

 

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The BBC reported yesterday that, as predicted, following the weekend’s terrorist attack on its Kerch Bridge to Crimea, Russia has officially declared the end of its agreement to allow Ukraine to safely ship grain over the Black Sea.



Also predictably, complicit and clueless western leaders sharply criticized Russia’s decision, calling it “cynical” and “cruel.” The failure of the year-old deal will put even more pressure on the world’s manmade food catastrophe and spur even more worldwide inflation:

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who heads the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Black Sea trade in food, feed and fertiliser was “critical to the stability of global food prices” - adding that hope must be kept alive that Moscow would reconsider pulling out of the deal.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, meanwhile, said the organisation would look for solutions to the “rise in human suffering” that would “inevitably” follow Russia’s decision.

Russian government sources told BBC the decision was not related to the Kerch Bridge attack, but the announcement of Russia’s withdrawal from the deal came just two hours after the bombing. In other words, this new crisis was totally preventable, and was caused by Ukraine, which gained no strategic advantage by the attack whatsoever.

☕️ IT IS OVER ☙ Tuesday, July 18, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

The Times says it's really over, and they mean it, this time; unredacted email exposes more Fauci fraud; Russia pans grain deal; Fla. counties want shots seized; SADS in Israel; no regrets; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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Rejected underage drinker hires protesters to smear luxury NYC hotel with wild signs: suit​

He couldn’t stomach being carded.

The teenage son of a Park Avenue doctor has been accused of launching a bizarre smear campaign against the swanky Mark Hotel — hiring protesters to wave signs accusing the business of supporting pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and “denying the Holocaust,” a new lawsuit claims.

Theodore Weintraub, 19, allegedly concocted the twisted revenge plot after he was booted from the five-star hotel for repeatedly trying to buy drinks with a fake ID, according to a suit filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The rejected underage drinker paid demonstrators to chant with wild signs outside the luxe building on East 77th Street near Fifth Avenue — even timing the demonstrations to coincide with visits from VIP guests, such as the rapper Drake, the July 27 suit alleges.